WORLD WAR II Flashcards
Major causes of WWII
- Mistreatment of Germany under the Versailles Treaty
- The Great Depression leads to the rise of dictatorship in Europe
Dictators promise what and what did it lead to?
Promised to get countries out of the depression and bring prosperity
It lead to the rise of 4 extreme forms of government because the people were desperate
4 Extreme forms of Government
- Communism - Russia/Soviet Union
- Fascism - Italy/Spain
- Nazism - Germany
- Militarism - Japan
Form of governments shared beliefs/Ideologies
- Demanded fanatic loyalty to leaders/country
- Totalitarian/police states where the police/ gov. control everything(people have no rights)
- Racism - superiority of their race
Soviet Union/Russia
What did its leader do when in power
Communism - Bolshevik Revolution
Leader Joseph Stalin after death of Vladimir Lenin
- abolished democracy and outlaws all political parties
- Kills all rivals along with 30 million people
Italy
What did its leader do when in power
Fascism (Fascist)
Leader Benito Mussolini-(IL Duce) came by force
- Abolished democracy and outlaws all political parties
- Puts all enemies in prison
Spain
Fascism (Fascist)
Leader Francisco Franco
Germany
President
Nazism
Germany was hit hard by the GREAT Depression
The leader - Paul Von Hindenburg
Weimar Republic
Germany’s democratic government set up after WWI
Nazi Party
National Socialist Germans Workers Party - Hitler joins in 1919 and in 1921 becomes the leader
Beer Hall Putsch
“coup” Hitler tries to overthrow the government and goes to jail in 1924
Mein Kompf
“My struggles”- Nazi “Bible” “master race”=Aryan people/Pure Germans
Hitlers election
“Fuh rer”
Loses and becomes Chancellor of Germany
Later becomes president and declares himself “absolute ruler”
How Adolf Hitler comes to power?
- Promises to get the German people out of the Depression(prosperity)- “savior”
- Revenge for the German mistreatment in the Versailles Treaty
Brown Shirts
“Third Reich”
(stormtroopers)- ones who helped Hilter come to power ( Nazis Militia)
- Abolishes democracy and outlaws all political parties
- Enemies kill or in prison
- Nazi Empire(thousand years)
Gestapo
A police state one of the one that keeps Hitler in power
- German secret police
Black Shirts
(SS) A police state the other one that keeps Hilter in power
- Hilters personal army - EVIL!!!
Swastika
“Blood flag” - Nazi symbol
Hitlers campaign
“Untermensh”
to cleanse Germany form the “undesirables” of the world and only the “master race”- Aryans(Blond, blue, white)
- sub human
The Undesirables
- Russia/Polish - slav - Homosexuals
- Roma(gypsies) - Handicapped
- Jehovah Witness - Negroes
- Jews(anti-semitism - Jewish hated)*blamed for Germans lost in WWI